This is Beirut 01:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Iran is being "decimated" and it is unclear who is in charge, even as the Islamic Republic kept up attacks on Gulf oil and gas targets that have jolted global markets. Nearly three weeks into the Middle East war launched by Israel and the United States, Netanyahu said Tehran ...
Claudia Groeling 19/03 12:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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A Lebanese immigrant to the U.S. last Thursday drove a truck laden with explosives into a synagogue in Michigan, as Israel fought a war with Hezbollah thousands of miles away, a group to which the assailant’s brother reportedly has ties. The FBI described Ayman Ghazali’s attack as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.” ...
This is Beirut 19/03 11:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Gaza's border crossing with Egypt reopened on Thursday for a limited number of people, Palestinian and Egyptian officials told AFP, for the first time since Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran. An Egyptian Red Crescent official, speaking anonymously to AFP, said the Rafah crossing had reopened in both directions to allow a ...
This is Beirut 19/03 03:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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An influential pro-Iranian armed group in Iraq pledged early Thursday to stop attacking the US embassy for five days, subject to several conditions including that Israel stop strikes on parts of Beirut. AFP reported no drone or rocket attacks so far on the US embassy in Iraq's capital Baghdad between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The ...
This is Beirut 18/03 22:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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On Wednesday, the Qatari Foreign Ministry declared the Iranian embassy’s military and security attaches as persona non grata due to Iran’s repeated attacks on the country. Qatar also said that Iranian attacks on its main gas facility situated on its north coast were a "direct threat to its national security". "Qatar ...
This is Beirut 18/03 18:15 - Reading : less than a minute
The UAE condemned the targeting on Wednesday of Iranian facilities in a gas field shared with Qatar, calling the attack attributed by Iran to the US and Israel a "dangerous escalation" in a rare rebuke. "The United Arab Emirates affirmed that targeting energy facilities linked to the South Pars gas field in the Islamic Republic of ...
This is Beirut 18/03 18:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel has increased its pressure on Hezbollah’s economic infrastructure in Lebanon as it broadens its attacks in southern Lebanon and the Beirut area. Following Hezbollah’s launching of its “Operation Khaybar 1” on Tuesday, launching over 60 missiles across Israel, the Israeli army has increased its focus on ...
This is Beirut 18/03 16:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Since the start of the Middle East war, Tehran-backed Iraqi groups have repeatedly attacked US interests, whether bases hosting troops, diplomatic missions, or oil facilities. The armed groups, which the U.S. designates as terrorist organisations, have, from the onset, warned that the Middle East conflict will become a prolonged war of ...
This is Beirut 18/03 15:50 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel said on Wednesday its forces had killed another top Iranian official, Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib, and said its military was authorised to kill any senior figure of the Islamic republic in its sights. The announcement, the day after Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was confirmed killed in an Israeli strike, is part of a ...
This is Beirut 18/03 14:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Key facts and figures about the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route virtually paralyzed by the Middle East war. Around a fifth of global crude oil and liquefied natural gas pass through the waterway in peacetime. The war erupted on February 28 when the US and Israel began bombing Iran, prompting it to retaliate with ...
This is Beirut 17/03 22:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iraq was in contact with Iran to try to arrange passage for some of its oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, the country's oil minister told local media. A founding member of the OPEC cartel, crude oil sales make up 90 percent of Iraq's budget revenues. Before the outbreak of war on February 28, Iraq mainly shipped its ...
This is Beirut 17/03 21:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Ron Dermer, recently-appointed head of the Israeli negotiating delegation with Lebanon, expressed that he is “making progress with Lebanon” regarding a political agreement between the two countries. On a deal with Lebanon, he expressed that “it is possible to talk about a potential peace agreement, but for a deal to be ...